Support for Win 8 will end 26th Jan this year.
Luckily not 8.1.
Support for Win 8 will end 26th Jan this year.
The 26th?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle
All that matters anyways is how long extended support lasts for an operating system. So the OS will still get hotfixes/bug fixes/security patches. Don't think I ever met anyone that actually called MS when Windows started acting up.
I guess if you have a smart phone, tablet, or any recent mobile device for that matter, the data collection that's going on in Win10 isn't anything new. But it's too much for me.